Xref: utzoo can.general:2127 ont.general:1143 Checksum: 38951 Path: utzoo!utgpu!gbs From: gbs@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Gideon Sheps) Date: Thu, 16-Nov-89 21:15:52 EST Message-ID: <1989Nov16.211552.29238@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> Organization: University of Toronto Computing Services Newsgroups: can.general,ont.general Subject: Re: Teachers Distribution: can References: <606@alias.UUCP> <12258@watcgl.waterloo.edu> <7470@cognos.UUCP> <209@isgtec.UUCP> Sender: Reply-To: gbs@gpu.utcs.UUCP (Gideon Sheps) Followup-To: Distribution: can Organization: University of Toronto Computing Services Keywords: In article <209@isgtec.UUCP> robert@isgtec.UUCP (Robert Osborne) writes: > >I don't think there are many teachers in the 50K range (does anybody >know the pay scales for teachers, college instructors, and university >professors?) Since a lot of community college instructors come from >industry I wouldn't be surprised if it takes money to get them. In the high school systems of Ontario & Quebec circa $50,000 is the top salary range. What does it take ? In Quebec, you need about 15 years experience and a Master's degree (well, actually, you can get a couple more bucks for a PhD, but not much) In Ontario, I believe about the same experience, and a B.A. and some form of 'specialization' e.g. Guidance Councellor (training, not necessairily practiced). The Ontario Pay scale is about 4 or 5% above Quebec's at the moment. >Any incompetent teachers should be FIRED, period. It's too important Touchy area.. who defines incompetant ? There is as much infighting and 'office politics' in the teaching profession as in any other - indeed, more than in many. I've heard enough stories from my mother (Quebec H.S. teacher) about school board politics to know just how easily a teaching system without tenure could be abused by an administration, and/or a few powerful teachers. Supposedly that's what the pre-tenure period is for. Many of the problems emerge not at the begining, but with teachers who do not keep up with their field - or with the changes in pedagogy, or who 'wear out' and don't know when to quit. Then again - is it at all fair to force people to quit, based on .. based on what.. we're back to the question of who does the defining. >Robert A. Osborne | I take full responsibility for the opin... >...uunet!mnetor!lsuc!isgtec!robert | -- Gideon Sheps I am not a number ... ...I am a free variable ! /// UUCP: {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,pyramid}!utzoo!utgpu!gbs \\\/// BITNET: gbs@utorgpu INTERNET: gbs@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca \\\/